Is it possible to add language tag on a single foreign language page?

[JonnyGreenwood]

I have some pages are written in foreign language, is it possible to just add the language tag on this single page to enable it to target specific audience?

eg, if I have a page written in German, how do I add the language tag to help it get a better rank in google.de?

Thank you Mozzers

[JonnyGreenwood]

Hi Sheldon,

question again: I read the Google's official guide of the rel=alternate hreflang=x tag, Google says that if your page's navigation, sidebars are translated, or you want to target on specific region which use similar language, you can use this tag.

But for me, I just have 4-5 fully translated pages, not just translate navigation or sidebar, should I use this tag?

[JonnyGreenwood]

Thank you Sheldon, you are such an informative and helpful guy.

[Doc_Sheldon]

Absolutely, Jonny. This week, Google introduced a change to this (http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=189077) which allows a default setting. But I've been doing this for a couple of years, with just one or two pages of a foreign language, placing idiom-specific hreflang attributes on those pages, and none at all on the rest of the pages, which are all in English. It works just fine, so I really don't know exactly what the x-default is supposed to accomplish, other than perhaps avoid having the rest of the site bracketed with a foreign language page.

[JonnyGreenwood]

Only 4 or 5 pages are written in foreign language, I don't have an entire sub-category or sub-domain in foreign language.

So it is possible to add hreflang="xx" in single page and it will work?

[Doc_Sheldon]

Are you referring to the hreflang attribute? If so, it will depend upon your site structure, but it would be a simple matter of adding the hreflang="de" to the page in the appropriate link rel on the German page.